The Irish : emigration, marriage and fertility /
Robert E. Kennedy.
- Berkeley, CA. : University of California Press, 1973.
- xviii, 236 p. ; 20 cm. + pbk.
Bibliography: (pages 226-231) and index.
Basic issues and interpretations -- Conditions in nineteenth-century Ireland -- Mortality and relative living standards -- Female emigration and the movement from rural to urban areas -- Emigration and agricultural labor-saving techniques -- Nationalism and protestant emigration -- Postponed marriage and permanent celibacy -- High marital fertility -- The interrelationship of historical trends.
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Ireland--Population. Ireland--Emigration and immigration.